est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.8% (1997)

Labor force: 514,000 (1995)

Labor force--by occupation: construction and industry 36%,
services 24%, agriculture and fishing 14%, trade, restaurants,
hotels 16%, transportation and communication 7%, finance 3% (1995)

Unemployment rate: 2% (1996 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $824 million (FY94/95)
expenditures: $1 billion, including capital expenditures of $198
million (FY95/96 est.)

Industries: food processing (largely sugar milling), textiles,
clothing; chemicals, metal products, transport equipment,
nonelectrical machinery; tourism

Industrial production growth rate: 5.8% (1992)

Electricity--production: 1.125 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 86.67%
hydro: 13.33%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 1.125 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas,
pulses; cattle, goats; fish

Exports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: clothing and textiles 55%, sugar 24% (1995)

Exports--partners: UK 34.4%, France 19.5%, US 13.0%, Germany 5.6%,
Italy 4.0% (1996)

Imports: $2.3 billion (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: manufactured goods 37%, capital equipment
19%, foodstuffs 13%, petroleum products 8%, chemicals 7% (1995)

Imports--partners: South Africa 12.0%, France 11.1%, India 8.9%,
UK 6.5%, Germany 4.7%, (1996)

Debt--external: $1.2 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $5.2 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Mauritian rupee (MauR) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Mauritian rupees (MauRs) per US$1--24.099 (January
1999), 22.803 (1998), 20.561 (1997), 17.948 (1996), 17.386 (1995),
17.960 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 107,000 (1993)

Telephone system: small system with good service
domestic: primarily microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean);
new microwave link to Reunion; HF radiotelephone links to several
countries

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 399,000 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2 (in addition, there are 11
repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 242,000 (1993 est.)

Transportation